In the News

Pancake Breakfast – Come to the Southside Community Center, 5585 Cottle Road, San Jose, and join me for free pancakes, coffee and fruit on Saturday, November 13, 8:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. We’ll be talking about legislative issues and receiving an update from Jane Mark, Santa Clara County Parks director, about the development of Martial Cottle Park, a 288-acre parcel bordered by Branham Lane, and Snell and Chynoweth avenues.

How can we fix state government now? Against the backdrop of two distinctly different statewide efforts to reform California’s constitution, Assemblymember Beall is holding two Town Halls to continue the public debate and explore possible solutions.

Here’s a quick update on the twin town halls I held earlier this month:

More than 120 people attended the town halls at San Jose State University and at the Willow Glen Community and Senior Center.

Joining me was Thad Kousser, a University of California-San Diego political science professor who is researching and analyzing constitutional reform as a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institute, and the Bill Lane Center for the American West, both located at Stanford University.

In observance of Earth Day’s 40th anniversary in April, my staff and I are looking for 40 volunteers or more for our “40 For 40’’ campaign to clean up a section of Los Gatos Creek in Campbell. The clean-up is scheduled from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., Saturday, April 17, at Campbell Park, between Campbell and Camden avenues.